Visualizing Overtwisted Discs in Open Books

Tetsuya Ito, Keiko Kawamuro · Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences · 2014

We give an alternative proof of a theorem of Honda{Kazez{Matic that every non-right-veering open book supports an overtwisted contact structure. We also study two types of examples that show how overtwisted discs are embedded relative to right-veering open books.

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